Top 100 Browne Quotes
#1. I like the idea of men's tailoring on girls. It's very strong and sexy in a non-overt way.
Thom Browne
#2. There are some days when history is made. Yesterday was one - and I was honoured to be in Washington to watch Barack Obama being sworn in. During his soaring inaugural address, the new president gazed over a teeming National Mall that was crowded with more than a million people.
Des Browne
#3. I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.
Harry Browne
#4. It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.
Sylvia Browne
#5. I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.
Thomas Browne
#8. The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.
Harry Browne
#9. Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.
Harry Browne
#10. Live one day at a time, unless you can figure out how to live two.
Dik Browne
#11. It's sad that the cell phone is replacing the watch as a time-telling device. I wear a vintage watch that's really skinny.
Thom Browne
#12. To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.
Thomas Browne
#13. Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
Harry Browne
#14. Whatever he does in office, no man can live up to the high expectations of the world, but we have been changed by his election. Obama's inauguration is a historic global achievement, a major milestone in the journey of a powerful nation.
Des Browne
#15. Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.
Thomas Browne
#16. Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
Jackson Browne
#17. I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.
Des Browne
#18. You know you are old when you've lost your marvels.
Mary Browne
#19. When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie.
Jackson Browne
#20. I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.
Thomas Browne
#21. There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.
Thomas Browne
#22. He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
Thomas Browne
#23. In this world, you have to fight to live. In this world, there's no easy way, there's the hard way, and the harder way.
Darby Browne
#24. Never forget that children are at the heart of everything we do. Respect them, listen to them, talk to them as equals, and care about them.
Anthony Browne
#25. Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
Harry Browne
#26. I think God gave every one of us a cell phone, we just dropped it.
Sylvia Browne
#27. For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.
Thomas Browne
#28. You can certainly go to war about it, but to me it seems pointless.
Joy Browne
#29. There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
Harry Browne
#30. Life. It's your birthday present. Open it up and play with it. Act like you like it. (The One who gave it to you is watching, after all. Don't want to hurt his feelings.) And if you don't like your life, CHANGE IT. It is all yours.
Jill Conner Browne
#31. Profit is a reward for satisfying the desire of someone else.
Harry Browne
#32. If I want to win a title I have to beat the champion myself, I don't have teammates inside the ring.
Travis Browne
#33. My golden rule has always been to look on the bright side, no matter what. With all the complications in my life, I had to. Because if you can find three good things in any given situation, no matter how dire, I guarantee you'll forget the rotten stuff.
Hester Browne
#34. If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.
Thomas Browne
#35. Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.
Harry Browne
#36. People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
Jackson Browne
#37. World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
Harry Browne
#39. Study prophecies when they are become histories.
Thomas Browne
#40. Happiness is being contented with what you got-- so get enough.
Dik Browne
#41. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.
Anthony Browne
#42. With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.
Thomas Browne
#43. Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it.
Anthony Browne
#44. I've always been drawn to the American style in the late '50s and '60s.
Thom Browne
#45. Most of the day I work standing up, as I once read somewhere that it's the best position for the back.
Anthony Browne
#46. Nothing should be perfect. I think that's the most important thing. I do wear my jackets almost exaggeratedly short. So that's probably the most mussed up. Along with, you know, not ironing my shirt.
Thom Browne
#47. As a designer, I think you just have to make sure you know what you want and stay true to it. You need to have conviction and really just want to make people think in regards to doing interesting things.
Thom Browne
#48. These are O Lord the humble desires of my most reasonable ambition and all I dare call happinesse on earth: wherein I set no rule or limit to thy hand or providence. Dispose of me according to the wisdome of thy pleasure. Thy will bee done, though in my owne undoing.
Thomas Browne
#49. DEFINITION Political correctness is an ideology that classifies certain groups of people as victims in need of protection from criticism, and which makes believers feel that no dissent should be tolerated.
Anthony Browne
#50. The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.
Anthony Browne
#51. FINANCIAL TIP
For guys
buying the stupid flowers when you're supposed to will be way cheaper than what you'll have to buy and do to make up for it if you forget.
Jill Conner Browne
#52. There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring.
William Browne
#53. To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Thomas Browne
#54. I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm still in love with paper and paint and pencils.
Anthony Browne
#55. The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.
Thomas Browne
#56. I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.
Thomas Browne
#57. Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.
Thomas Browne
#58. For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
Harry Browne
#59. Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult
Rayvon L. Browne
#60. I'm not Amish, but I grew up in that same area of Pennsylvania and became very attracted to the inherent strictness and uniformity of that community.
Thom Browne
#61. I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on
Jackson Browne
#62. If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.
Harry Browne
#64. We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.
Thomas Browne
#65. With the enhancements to the security of the passport document itself that biometric technology will bring, it is time to make equivalent enhancements to the process of establishing identity before issuing passports.
Des Browne
#66. You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.
Anthony Browne
#69. I am sorry to be leaving the post of secretary of state for Scotland.
Des Browne
#70. Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.
Thomas Browne
#71. And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry.
Thomas Browne
#73. Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
Jackson Browne
#74. Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
Harry Browne
#75. It's vitally important that you buy your own crown and declare yourself Queen, and then spend the rest of your life living into that.
Jill Conner Browne
#76. As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.
Anthony Browne
#77. When I was a boy, I was a worrier, and so was my son, Joe. I used to tell him that worrying meant he had an imagination and that one day he'd be pleased.
Anthony Browne
#78. In my experience, people who are truly compassionate rarely use the word "compassion." Those who do talk compassion generally intend to be compassionate with your money, not their own. It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that 'compassion'.
Harry Browne
#79. That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.
Thomas Browne
#80. Get your money out of the country before your country gets your money out of you
Harry Browne
#81. We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody.
Joy Browne
#82. What I think a psychic is, unfortunately, I think in this day and age, it's taken on sort of a rancid sound.
Sylvia Browne
#83. There is something rather sexy about men who knew exactly what they are talking about. Men who might not be conventionally attractive, but who are obviously highly competent at their jobs.
Hester Browne
#84. Seersucker and khaki suits are the key to looking put-together in the summer. I also wear shorts year-round. And I would never say never, but I don't wear sandals. With shorts, it's wing tips and tennis socks.
Thom Browne
#85. It's not like I'm looking to describe something that's only true of my own circumstances. It's beyond. It's way inside, you know. It's reaching inside to something that you have in common with many.
Jackson Browne
#86. It does not matter if you believe in God, because God believes in you,
Sylvia Browne
#87. I want to put concepts in front of people that make them laugh or smile or even hate what I do. I'm not interested in just putting clothes in stores.
Thom Browne
#89. Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
Harry Browne
#90. No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.
Thomas Browne
#91. The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.
Thomas Browne
#92. The coercive power of government is always a beacon to those who want to dominate others
summoning the worst dregs of society to Washington to use that power to impose their will upon others.
Harry Browne
#94. I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.
Thomas Browne
#95. I want to know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring/Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening?
Jackson Browne
#96. I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.
Thomas Browne
#97. If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.
Harry Browne
#98. Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
Thomas Browne
#99. Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.
Jackson Browne
#100. M dad was a boxer, so he had this fierce, physical presence.
Anthony Browne
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